Comments by "SepherStar" (@SepherStar) on "CBC News" channel.

  1. In a society that cares for it's old, injured, and disabled, you would also be cared for if you became old, injured, and disabled, should, for whatever reason, you couldn't care for yourself, and your family were unable to care for you. Even though your miserable self doesn't seem to deserve it.
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  2. It's not unusual for parents of even regular kids to want a vacation from parental responsibilities every once in a while.
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  3. In a civilized society, yes, it is the responsibility of the tax payers. If you don't like it, move to some 3rd world place where most of the population lives in shanty towns.
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  4. It's not absurd because a lot of people skip out on the payment. Anyway most vets have signs and make you sign a contract that state fees are due upfront.
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  5. A lot of vets where I am don't recommend regular vaccinations for cats because of this. They will recommend vaccinations as kittens...typically feline leukemia, and maybe rabies every few years if you are in an area with it, but they recommend you keep your cats indoors.
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  6. I've never heard of a vet recommending dry food for cats with kidney problems. They typically recommend wet food because cats with kidney problems have difficulty staying hydrated. Protein restricted diets for cats with kidney problems is controversial. Some vets say the problem is the protein, while other vets say the problem is high phosphorus content that is often found in high protein foods, and that the cats actually need the protein but not the phosphorus. With both my cats who developed kidney problems, I did subcutaneous fluid therapy. That is a completely prescription thing here in the U.S. which makes it somewhat expensive, but in Canada it's over the counter. If you have to do it, just be sure you follow your vet's directions.
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  7. Why $700?
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  8. Actually at the dentist you are really just paying for the cost of the business, student loans, and living expenses plus some savings. I know this for a fact. My home town dentist had horrible teeth and it took him over a decade in practice to afford veneers himself because he was paying for his practice, staff, student loans, mortgage in a middle class, suburban neighborhood, a wife and three kids, one with special needs. He wasn't making off with a lot of spending money.
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  9. Depends. I've used cheap stuff from the drug store and expensive stuff from the salon. I had to use a lot less of the expensive stuff....but it's expensive.
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  10. That's the microphone pack.
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  11. Where I am, the body is turned over to the county coroner and the coroner will cremate the body and hold the cremains for up to two years, during which time the family can claim the cremains for a few hundred dollars...something like $200 to $500. If the family does not do this, the cremains are eventually buried in a mass grave. A memorial is usually held at the grave site and the county keeps a list of the names of the individuals in the grave but I do not believe they are listed on the grave marker as there are usually many of them.
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  12. Not everything is a diet problem. In fact most things aren't.
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  13. I would take the car in once in a while to have kidneys checked. Particularly after the age of 10. Also be sure to keep the liter box super clean and have an idea of your cat's litter box habits. Both of my cats developed kidney problems eventually. The first one, her stools became dry and then her fur became clumpy, and the second one, the box started smelling like ammonia but I thought they had just changed the formula of the litter and didn't realize it was a kidney problem until he was going to the water bowl every five minutes and then planted himself there. We thought it was chronic kidney disease like the first cat, which is progressive, but a year later, the vet said his kidney values weren't making sense for chronic kidney disease, and what probably happened was he had a UTI at some point that went to his kidneys (probably when the box started smelling like ammonia) and damaged his kidneys but it wasn't progressive.
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  14. That's actually very poetic.
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  15. Some jurisdictions require refrigeration after 24 hours.
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  16. Most areas have a low cost spay and neuter clinic. If you adopt from the country shelter here, the cost of spay and neuter is included in the adoption fee, as well as vaccinations and a microchip.
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  17. It's not a matter of milking you...at least not at all vets. Most vets will try to work with you to keep your pet alive and healthy, and offer different care options. There is the ideal level of care, and then there is a level of care that they hope will save your pet but may not.
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  18. I don't think they are scams. I just think they are often over priced.
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  19. I'm pretty sure it's not legal in the U.S. either! I have no idea what scaretfluerr is doing.
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  20. The bible considers your actions theft.
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  21. They don't scrape the enamel off. In fact dental scrapers are softer than enamel.
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  22. My family used to move a lot. My parents would rent a truck, and get boxes from the back of liquor stores and my dad would pay the guys loitering outside the front of the store $50 and a 6 pack to help us.
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  23. Cremation isn't free because it costs money to build the crematorium, and it costs money to staff it and fuel the incinerators. They have to burn at very high temperatures to sufficiently cremate the body and ensure that no particulates are released into the atmosphere. All of the soft tissue is vaporized into CO, CO2 and water vapor. What's left are the bone fragments which are further ground into a powder after the cremation. So you are not actually receiving ashes back, but bone powder.
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  24. Or people, and people and dogs died of things that could easily be prevented and treated by modern medicine.
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  25. Sometimes they can't tell until they get the tartar off.
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  26. Is trespassing not as illegal in Canada as it is in the U.S.?
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  27. In the U.S. when things near their "sell by" or expiration date, they get market down and if they don't sell, they get tossed. For whatever reason, the markets also toss a lot of good food, but they often compact it or lock the bins so homeless people can't get to it (yeah, evil). I don't think they really bother to doctor the meat or poultry unless it's been cooked and they think they should try to find something to do with it. As for the raw stuff, a lot of times meat and poultry goes bad before it's expiration date. Fresh meat and poultry has no bad, strange, or off odor. It should smell like nothing, or just the packaging, or a very faint "clean' scent.
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  28. Where I am, it is grown locally because, well, that's what we grow locally.
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